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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Cesare Pavese

Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

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